Improvement in foot-brushes



JOHN W,l OSBORNE. improvement in Foot-Brushes.

N.0.'H4,847, Patented May16,l87l.

auch site JOHN fw. o sBOnNE, or BROOKLYN. New YORK.

Letters Patent No. 114,847,1ated May 1s, 1871.

IMPROVEMENTIN FOOT-BRUSHES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making Dart of the same.

I, J OHN W. QSBORNE, of the city of Brooklyn, and

county of Kings and State of New York, have in vented certain Improvements in Foot-Brushes,.of

, which the following is a specification.

Nature and Object.

My invention relates to that class of devices known as foot-brushes, upon which the feet may be cleaned,

or as a substitute for Scrapers, and consists, rst,

in so mounting a -stif coarse brush 4upon a.pedes tal or base that the most conve-nient and common position of the foot thereon when in the act of be ing cleaned will not tend to move the apparatus on the oor, thereby dispensing with the necessity of fastening the base ixedly, or giving great weight to said pedestal or base, as is now very commonly done'.

The second part of this invention relates to the manner of holding said brush in working position, and specially Ato a shield or guard that supports the back part of the brush-bers so that they cannot be crushed down orbroken by the pressure of the foot.

Drawing.

' commonly made of cast-iron, and may 'be made very thin and light so as to be readily portable,`and upon the upper side and near one end of said base a receiver, B, is formedfor the brush B.

Said receiver may he made by having three sides cast upon the base, and the other or fourth side loose or adjustable, and made to t' in between two of the other sides, and held in position byfa screw-bolt,- asl shown Vat G, figs. l2 and 3. .It may, `however, be cast or formed'all in one piece with the base, or separately from the; base, and fastened upon it after the brush is formed in it. x

'lh-s recciverlis placed at such an angle relatively upon the base that the common and most easy -posi tion of ythe feet upon the upper end of the brush will form a right angle, or nearly so, between the plane of the i'oot and the ibers of the brush or so that when some' pressure is brought upon it the line of force will fall within the `rear end of the base and thereby prevent a sliding movement backward and a tilting action in front.

Y The best angle for placing said brush upon the base will be found to be about seventy degreeswith the plane of the base, and at such au angle the brushing action upon the bottomof the foot will be found to be most readily accomplished. i

As the pressure is brought upon the upper end ot the brush yand amovement' backward is given, the bers will be bent backward, as shown at D, g. 2, while supported by the shield or guard D,'which effectually prevents their being broken.

The brush may he composed of any substances of which brushes are made, and for facility of construction the fibers may all be cutthe same length; but in such a case, to give the proper shape to the top of the brush, the bottom of the receiver may be made of the same configuration as required at the top, 'so that when the fibers are driven down to the bottom the upper end of the brush will have the proper-shape without the necessity of being trimmed.

The receiver B, as already remarked, may be formed of one piece and without the loose side, and in such a case the splints may be driven into said box containing a liquidmixture of asphaltum, or pitch of some kind, that will soon harden and hold them in position.

Claim.

J. w. vosnoinvn.

Witnesses:

E. N. Entor, BOYD EnroT. 

